Remember in school how all the network cables stayed hidden with those nice plastic shells that went up and down the walls and side to side on the floors? Wish you could do the same for your home? Now you can, thanks to Brooklyn-based designer Karl Zahn. His Picket Fence project looks to keep your cable collection tucked away behind a classic white picket fence. Sure, there’s wireless solutions, but that’s not ideal for all of us.

You stick a picket on your floor’s skirting board and continue as you see fit. Create a whole wall that resembles your mother’s garden and keep that CAT-5 on the DL. No word if the Picket Fence system will ever be released commercially, though you could always hit up The Home Depot and build your own.

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Ever wished your home could be as organized as your computer desktop? Well, not me, my desktop is an utter mess. But those of you who like the simple organization that your desktop offers, check out this project that brought the desktop alive.

The project put paper files with a desktop-like background on the wall, along with pixelated looking titles, which makes for an excellent home organizational technique.  Though, if the project winds up looking anything like my desktop, you might as well go back to your old way of doing things. — Andrew Dobrow

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The Tune Tether is an invention that will probably make you sad. Why? Because it’s an invention that you could have created by yourself. It solves a problem that nearly everyone has had one time or another. When you are listening to your music through headphones and someone wants to talk to you, although your first reaction might be to ignore them, once you commit to taking your earbuds out, the Tune Tether comes into action. It is basically a piece of plastic that curves around your neck and has two notches for the wires to go into. If you just put your cords into the notches when you put the earbuds in, when you need to take them out for just a second, the Tune Tether keeps them neat and near to your ears so that you don’t have a hastle when you want to put them back in. One problem, you are certain to get made fun of if someone notices that you have something that is made to keep your wires organized. So what do you have to pay for this simple piece of plastic? $9.99 each or a three pack for $19.99. — Nik Gomez

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